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“A silence can easily fall between those who do not consider themselves a topic.”
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“So what does Shakespeare teach us? Nothing. His tragic theatre is not a classroom. It is a fairground wall of death in which the characters are being pushed outwards by the centrifugal force of the action but held in place by the friction of the language. It sucks us into its dizzying spin.”
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“Almost to the end, he had kept pace with his convulsed century, detached but not dispassionate; aiming for the heart.”
― Greene on Capri: A Memoir
― Greene on Capri: A Memoir
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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“Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no one returned the same.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
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